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Ruta Bancos Gigantes or Huge Bench Route in Andalucia

A new rage is slowly spreading across Andalucia with its beginnings in the province of Malaga and that is huge benches are being installed in beauty spots across the region. The Huge Bench Route or  Ruta Bancos Gigantes #rutabancosgigantes can be found on Instagram  where they are more active with updates on the new installations of these enormous benches and they have a   Facebook  page too. Map of the Ruta Bancos Gigantes The initiative started by Forest Green an agrobroker company that supplies and works with treated wood to large construction and environmental companies in Spain. The huge bench route is steadily growing, with constant new installations spreading across Andalucia. The enormous handmade wooden benches are 4 metre long and 2.3 metre high, with the seat being 1.3 metres above ground and needing steps to get onto them, appearing in natural beauty spots hopes to encourage people out into and  enjoy the views and of course take photos to be ...

Homemade Rosemary Rub for Aches & Pains

When my gregarious (aren´t they all) Spanish friend presented me with some sprigs of dried rosemary in flower I thought uh oh, another recipe to try. Well I was right and I was wrong. This time it was a recipe for a lotion to rub on aches and pains anywhere on the body, probably for muscle relaxing too but I can´t vouch for that - yet.

All you have to do is shove the rosemary in a bottle of 100% alchohol and leave it 40 days but 20 will do she said! (I can do that). Then rub it into all those aching joints. Well I will make some, but keep forgetting to buy the alcohol, it´s not the usual type on my shopping list.

Then I´ll have to wait 20 or 40 days (does it make any difference one is thinking) and then I´ll need an ache or pain! The beauty is the alcohol costs about 60 centimos, the rosemary free but needs picking when in flower and it keeps for that moment when you have need.

It´s cheap, free and old she told me. An ancient cure-all. Must be good then

My own garden picked Rosemary not the dehydrated offering!

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